• Uses existing network infrastructure investments that do not force changes to the underlying wireline infrastructure and do not require special client devices

• Enables secure campus-wide Layer 3 roaming

• Supports up to 6000 wireless LAN users and 600 Cisco Aironet Series autonomous access points spread throughout the campus using a single Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series WLSM deployed in a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series chassis located anywhere in the network

• Simplifies management and deployment of wireless networks by unifying wireless and wireline networks, providing consistent application of policies for all wireless traffic via a single point of ingress and providing "out-of-box" access point configuration

• Extends Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series rich intelligent network services to the wireless edge, including enterprise-class security (denial of service [DoS] prevention access control lists [ACLs], firewall, intrusion detection, and IP Security [IPSec] VPN), high availability (Layer 2 and Layer 3 nonstop forwarding [NSF] with stateful switchover [SSO] of the control and data planes in a supervisor failover, and Cisco EtherChannel®), and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms